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goldensw@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours agoIt’s 200-250k monthly users… Yeah, the server is overkill. Unfortunately, the situation is a bit more tricky, I forgot to mention the storage constraint in my initial post. Look at the reply I wrote to @dan@upvote.au to see what I mean.
rimu@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Oh right, yeah, Wordpress does tend to use up an awful lot of storage - every image gets copied 5 or 6 times, in different sizes just incase you need that size. It’s nuts.
You don’t need to store those images in your server though, they can be uploaded to S3 (object storage) where it is 10x cheaper to store them and then you can have a cheaper VPS.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/
There are many providers of S3-compatible storage, you don’t need to use AWS. Cloudflare R2 is super cheap - https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/developer-platform/products/r2/ or Hetzner - https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/
dan@upvote.au 2 hours ago
This is heavily dependent on the VPS. Some of my VPSes are cheaper than object storage would be.
goldensw@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Yeah, it’s definitely a solution I am currently researching. The main hurdle is to consider how to transfer everything. Let’s say I get a VPS or a cheap, but modern dedicated server with low storage. Or perhaps even wordpress managed hosting if offloading can be properly integrated, since plugin choice and functionality might be limited. Premium plugins like WP Offload Media only work when you already have the media on your local storage. A risky solution would be offloading the media on my current server, then installing the plugin on the new server and hoping all the media syncs…
rimu@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Yes, do the S3 integration before moving, for sure.